IV. Controls and Display

Mode dial in the Custom position

is enabled by choosing C.Fn-18-1, shooting priority, and pressing the Direct Print button and the Magnify/Reduce button simultaneously.

Menus The EOS 5D Digital SLR has three menus: Shooting, Playback and Setup. They are color coded red, blue and yellow, respectively. The Shooting menu offers control of recording quality, Beep on/off, Shoot without CF card on/off, Auto Exposure Bracketing, White Balance shift and bracket, Custom White Balance, Color Temperature, Color Space and Picture Style. The Playback menu controls Protect, Rotate, Print Order, Auto Play, Review time, AF points display/not and Histogram Brightness/RGB. The Setup menu has settings for Auto power off, Auto rotate, LCD brightness, Date/Time, File numbering, Select/Create folder, Language (15 choices), Video system, Communication, Format, Custom Functions, Clear settings, Register camera settings and Sensor cleaning. This is a degree of control suited to pros and serious amateurs alike.

Customization A full complement of twenty-one Custom Functions with

fifty-seven settings is provided on the EOS 5D camera. Three additions have been made to the functions provided by the EOS 20D. C.Fn-00 must be set to match the installed focusing screen (0-Ee-A, 1-Ee-D, 2-Ee-S). C.Fn-17-1 is used to improve subject acquisition performance when the center AF point is selected in AI SERVO AF mode. (C.Fn-17-0 is the

Standard setting.) C.Fn-18, [LCD displ Return to shoot]

controls the way in which one is able to return instantly to shooting from menu viewing or image playback. The choices are 0 [With Shutter Button Only] or 1 [Also with AE Lock button, etc.], in which case all shooting controls will work instantly, even during menu operation or image playback. This becomes particularly helpful when the camera is set to Custom Function 4-1 or 4-3, in which AF is started by pressing the AE lock button.

Under the menu’s Setup tab, [Camera setting registration] allows users to store one set of frequently used camera settings, both Shooting Settings and Menu Settings included. The settings that will be saved can be displayed on the LCD panel by turning the Mode dial to C. The following settings cannot be saved: time information, language, communication setting, video output and those settings that cannot be reset to default with the camera reset function.

Canon 5d manual IV. Controls and Display